Professor Folke Gernert
University of Trier
Folke Gernert is a Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Trier in Germany. Her recent research focuses on the intersection of literature and science, with a particular focus on medicine and physiognomy. Her publications include a critical edition of La Lozana Andaluza, co-edited with Jacques Joset (Madrid, RAE, 2013) and the monographs Lecturas del cuerpo. Fisiognomía y literatura en la España áurea (Salamanca, Ediciones de la Universidad de Salamanca, 2018), Fictionalizing Heterodoxy – Various Uses of Knowledge in the Spanish World from the Archpriest of Hita to Mateo Alemán (Berlin, De Gruyter, 2019), and Divination on Stage. Prophetic Body Signs in Early Modern Theatre in Spain and Europe (Berlin, De Gruyter, 2021). She currently serves as Co-Editor of Romanistisches Jahrbuch and leads the research project Lucian and the Physicians. Literary and Medical Forms of Textualization in Early Modern Spain, funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation).
Friday,28 November 3:30-4:30 PM
"Diagnosing Desire: Love and the Body in Early Modern Physician-Writers"
In the early modern period, influential responses to the nature of love often came from physicians such as Marsilio Ficino or Leone Ebreo. Beyond the Neoplatonic discourse, the concept of love as an illness—amor hereos—and the role of black bile have garnered significant attention in literary-historical research. This talk examines how Spanish physician-writers like López de Villalobos, Juan de Jarava, Francisco Delicado, Barahona de Soto, Mateo Alemán, and López de Úbeda explored the physiological effects of erotic passion. It also considers how they reimagined these medical insights in fiction, adapting them to diverse textual forms, including problem books, dialogues, epic poems, and picaresque novels.
Venue TBC
A Canapé & Wine reception will follow
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Professor Folke Gernert
University of Trier
Folke Gernert is a Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Trier in Germany. Her recent research focuses on the intersection of literature and science, with a particular focus on medicine and physiognomy. Her publications include a critical edition of La Lozana Andaluza, co-edited with Jacques Joset (Madrid, RAE, 2013) and the monographs Lecturas del cuerpo. Fisiognomía y literatura en la España áurea (Salamanca, Ediciones de la Universidad de Salamanca, 2018), Fictionalizing Heterodoxy – Various Uses of Knowledge in the Spanish World from the Archpriest of Hita to Mateo Alemán (Berlin, De Gruyter, 2019), and Divination on Stage. Prophetic Body Signs in Early Modern Theatre in Spain and Europe (Berlin, De Gruyter, 2021). She currently serves as Co-Editor of Romanistisches Jahrbuch and leads the research project Lucian and the Physicians. Literary and Medical Forms of Textualization in Early Modern Spain, funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation).
Friday,28 November 3:30-4:30 PM
"Diagnosing Desire: Love and the Body in Early Modern Physician-Writers"
In the early modern period, influential responses to the nature of love often came from physicians such as Marsilio Ficino or Leone Ebreo. Beyond the Neoplatonic discourse, the concept of love as an illness—amor hereos—and the role of black bile have garnered significant attention in literary-historical research. This talk examines how Spanish physician-writers like López de Villalobos, Juan de Jarava, Francisco Delicado, Barahona de Soto, Mateo Alemán, and López de Úbeda explored the physiological effects of erotic passion. It also considers how they reimagined these medical insights in fiction, adapting them to diverse textual forms, including problem books, dialogues, epic poems, and picaresque novels.
Venue TBC
A Canapé & Wine reception will follow